I am officially going crazy from idling alone now, haha. Went and bought two ponies (Toola-Roola and Cheerilee), and drew one of them.
The ponies are my friends, that’s normal, right? They never complain when they’ve had a bad day, they always smile back.
Yep, it’s a good thing I have that internship now 
I haven’t made a character post about the Wanderer yet, he is also one of those old characters that have gone through a lot of change. I’ve learned a lot of new 3D abilities, and I really want to make models that make use of it – so clothes and whatnot, yesplz. Besides, just modelling plain/nude humans gets boring fast.
Concept/orthographical
3D in progress
I make heavy use of the technique Ben Mathis describes as “massing out forms” or “mass blocking”, which means step 1 is getting the figure to read, and it’s just detail and proper topology from there. It’s many times more intuitive and fast than extrusion methods and such, as the famous Joan of Arch tutorial would suggest you do. It’s a good tutorial too, and I learned a lot from it. But this is much more useful in the long run.
I also added eyes to the pony a few days ago;
I have some trouble making the alpha’ed out polygons not affect the material, so I’ll have to ask at work if they know about that – and maybe I can make a super render there. But everyone is so busy, I bet it wont be soon ;D Taking votes for her colours and cutie mark.
More stream doodles, all about boobies for some reason! But that’s what people get for not showing up to suggest what I should draw ;D But those of us who were there had a good time.
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The chromatic rainbow kittens attack the dark monsters in boring world, to bring the colourful light!
suggested and drawn on stream.
I’ve kinda wanted to redraw this for a while (along with the sitting ambrosius ol’ thing), but beyond adding more anatomy I’m not that interested. I often have the urge to remake old art, and tend to not do it because for one the novelty is gone, of course. The remaining reason is probably only procrastination. There are also works I don’t believe I can add much to, that I would just be copying them with better shading. Same is probably the case here… I should redesign it, not just redo the same thing.
Someone might notice … that’s a pretty masculine hermaphrodite. My old ones were like that, they all seemed to have genders to varying degrees. Even if it was like 51-49 m-f split I still thought from those 2 ends and now I don’t. The change from duality to simultaneity.
tl;dr orange is the best colour ever.
building from doughy shapes
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Life drawing session May 2nd at HUSET. Fun model who bounced around a lot and made good poses. He was so active he broke the podium.
This is bloggish! But it all has to do with art, culture and my future career – hopefully :3
Wednesday; went to the critique session at Animwork to get some good advice for improving my art. I made a lot of notes;
- some long studies for life drawing in addition to the 1-5 minute gesture work.
- also show them muscles in character designs, push for details. And no lazy lines.
- base stuff slightly more in reality. Anatomy was there, but something with.. design inspiration, I am not sure. Researching before drawing!
- something DIFFERENT for backgrounds. Yeah that’s just going to be hard work and practise. Maybe some happy mood backgrounds. Not as tight as a lined drawing, not as loose as my painted ones.
- more genres on characters especially, not just sci fi and fantasy. So, everyday, horror, detective, and whatnot. They were happy enough with my character design variation in itself.
- don’t get involved in drama on dA 2 weeks before deadline so you can’t concentrate. No, I just added that.
But really I just want to get started with more time to go on, and that’s why I’ve given my website a serious overhaul, it’s a great portfolio tool. Once things are put up I can see what I need to do, really.
Sometimes I get irritated with Animwork because they can be unresponsive (when they are busy?), and obviously because I don’t get in, but every time I go there I just become SO HAPPY from seeing the stuff they make, meeting the students, meeting the hopefuls like myself. Great people!
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Thursday and Friday; M found some good companies I could apply for – something I hadn’t thought to search in; architectural visualization (for some silly reason it’s catalogued under multimedia animation, don’t ask me why), so I worked to make a 3D portfolio, she called them to ask if they could take an intern, yes, so we worked to make some applications.
AND the big news – about an hour after I sent that, one of them called – so I have an interview tomorrow for an internship! So hopefully I get to get LOTS of 3D experience in the next couple of months, learn a thing or two about environments and pretty rendering. And maybe we’ll do some CRAZY things.
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Friday evening I went with my family to see a play of Sweeney Todd at the theatre. It was very fun and captivating. Made some doodles of the actors, that I forgot to scan!
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Saturday I had a barbecue with some of the girls from my art course last year. Very nice to see them again!
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Sunday, today; I’ve always wanted to make a 3D pony, so I took the time to photograph one of mine and made this;
It’s not a “friendship is magic” style one – I like those, but I still prefer the good ol’ stuff, and a lot of people are making FiM ponies at the moment. In fact a lot of other people are choking on ponies by now, hahaha. I even caught some flak for making them. (You can watch Friendship is Magic on pensivepony’s youtube.)
And with that, I’ll hit the bed, got a long and exciting day tomorrow, with creative workshops and the interview :3
Spent a lovely thursday with Moosecastle who, after making beads, beads, beads! got into making artist trading cards and trading them with people. Well, I didn’t find anyone to trade with first, I just made ‘em!
Scanners aren’t very good at metallics, BUT I ALMOST also feel like recreating simple specularity effects like Bigger Fish in 3D ;D I am thinking I’ll trade them for original cards made by YOU GUYS.
In other news, I really feel like buying some My Little Ponies.
Tia is a roleplaying character from ~2002. First edition was a pure warrior, a later remake was cross classed to rogue, as a more burly character entered the team. She was actually a rather odd warrior any way, too much intelligence. And too much little elf?
She was a moon elf by the D&D 3.0 system. I don’t remember the other characters that much… the first campaign had a wizard.. who somehow managed to father a centaur kid (at our second group). I don’t remember what my BF at the time played, Cleric? I remember our DM was a pothead and dropped out of the school (HTX).
About the art, sadly the first 2 are traced from other artwork to use as a base doll. I think at the time, conveying the design was more important to me than proper drawing, so when I saw something cool, I borrowed it. So I learned a ton about design and trained my motor skills too. I drew on my own as well, but in retrospect not a lot happens with my anatomy skill between 2000 and 2005 where I had completely stopped tracing. And then for a while nothing new happened either, I was firmly in the other ditch and avoided reference altogether. I just realized this is a tangent.
I will be honest with you all, I am a terrible role player, and Tia has no personality at all.
